SAX2 RFD: LexicalHandler draft v.1.1

David Megginson david at megginson.com
Sun Mar 21 18:45:22 GMT 1999


uche.ogbuji at fourthought.com writes:

 > > >and the XML declaration?
 > > 
 > > I think this could be helpful when updating a document, the
 > > encoding in particular. (An update should make the minimum
 > > necessary changes.)
 > 
 > Is it better to just use the processing instruction event?  I know
 > it would be nice to specialize the PI parameters, but do we then
 > extend this to other PIs that come out of the XML spectrum, such as
 > style-sheet specifiers?

They're different beasties.  Any other standardised PI's are still
PI's, while the XML declaration is definitely not a processing
instruction according to the XML 1.0 REC (nor is the encoding
declaration at the beginning of an external parsed entity).


All the best,


David

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